When Life Falters
and light flickers.
When a bed binds bones
to last words
let those words not disgrace you
in a dying time.
Let then your silence be eloquent
as words at last leave to find another poet,
one that can speak of all our endings
with new lines.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2022
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